I think it's honestly a good thing for hardcore introverts to stay home when they want to hibernate. Socialising with someone when they clearly don't want to be

I think it's honestly a good thing for hardcore introverts to stay home when they want to hibernate. Socialising with someone when they clearly don't want to be there is exhausting for me, let alone them, and nobody wins. At the same time, as someone who straddles the line between introversion and extraversion, it does feel like there's a higher activation energy for me now. I want to go out and do things, but it often seems to require more planning and more mental effort. I'm not happy with this change in myself, but there doesn't seem to be a quick way to fix it other than just putting more deliberate effort into being social and less into all the other stuff. I think the author is projecting her own feelings onto introverts in this piece. I feel the same way as she presumably does. Lockdown changed me in ways I don't like, albeit minor ones, and it's something of a struggle to manually keep doing the social things my old self did automatically.